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Math&Industry: Sharing knowledge betweeen mathematics and industry Robert RoggenbuckWolfram Sperber IuK 2003 Sharing Knowledge: Scientific Communication

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AgendaIntroductionPresentation of applied mathematicsThe Math&Industry project: AimsAn exampleStructuring of informationThe Math&Industry-PageMetadataThe WebSiteMakerAbout the central portal

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Introduction Applied mathematics plays an important role to understand mathematics Mathematics is used in a lot of application fields and a tool to solve problems for a long time ago. It is a good way for non-mathematicians to understand what mathematics is doing to study the use of mathematics in applications

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AgendaIntroductionPresentation of applied mathematicsThe Math&Industry project: AimsAn exampleStructuring of informationThe Math&Industry-PageMetadataThe WebSiteMakerAbout the central portal

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The BMBF programs in mathematics sponsoring of more than 150 projects in applied mathematics at german research institutions and companies three programs: 1993 - 1997 1997 - 2001 2001 2004 a fourth program will start 2004 (currently: call for participation)

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Presentation of the projects: the print version

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CommentsDifficulties for the presentation of applied mathematics: Classification of projects (by mathematics, by application fields?) What is with multimedia-based information, e.g., visualization, software, ...? time delay, updating of printed information

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Advantages of the WebPotential advantages of the Web: Web is multimedia-based, software, visualisations, simulations, demos, interactive presentations, ... ) several communities can be addressed (developers, ingeneers, managers, students, mathematicians in industry and services or in research institutions)I local management and updating of information central services provide an added value

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Up to the Math&Industry In the past, the Web presentation of the BMBF programs in mathematics was restricted to general information about the program information about the status seminars a list of the projects http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/amj/bmbf/bmbf.html

this is not enough to provide a comprehensive view about the objectives and aims of the projects

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AgendaIntroductionPresentation of applied mathematicsThe Math&Industry project: AimsAn exampleStructuring of informationThe Math&Industry-PageMetadataThe WebSiteMakerAbout the central portal

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Main aims of the project Math&Industry development of a concept for a comprehensive, high-quality and standardized Web presentation projects of projects in applied mathematics main requirements: user-friendly, efficient access to the information of projects, flexible, long-term stable. implementation of the concept within the BMBF programs in applied mathematics

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Project data start of the project: 2001-09-01 Participating institutions: ZIB Berlin (project office, management, pilot user) IWI Osnabrck (technical development) IWR Heidelberg (pilot user) Uni Freiburg (pilot user)

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dezentral architecture (the Math-Net principle) Web siteproject 1

Web siteproject 2Web siteproject ncentral components of Math&Industry...

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Local Web sitesTasks: to provide information about projects in a standardized form: uniform structure of the project information comprehensive information about a project, particularly for users with non-mathematical background enrichment of information by metadata, allowing to process the information by machines

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Central components Central portal http://www.mathematik-21.de: Gathering and processing of the local information (particularly of the metadata) Services, which provide different views to the information of projects Development of ontologies (to define the relations real problems - modelling - mathematical aspects) Archiving of finished projects

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AgendaIntroductionPresentation of applied mathematicsThe Math&Industry project: AimsAn exampleStructuring of informationThe Math&Industry-PageMetadataThe WebSiteMakerAbout the central portal

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Presentation of projects in the Web?

Example: Umlaufplanung

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A first summary each project has a lot of relevant information: the problem and the aims the modeling of the problem the mathematical approach results and products administrative data

to present a mathematical project is much more than a single Web page!

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AgendaIntroductionPresentation of applied mathematicsThe Math&Industry project: AimsAn exampleStructuring of informationThe Math&Industry-PageMetadataThe WebSiteMakerAbout the central portal

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Aims the Web presentations of the projects are addressed particularly to engineers, managers, technicians, and mathematicians coming from industry and services (users, who work actively in this field and also users, who could be interested in this field) the presentations should be focused to the real problems and the results of a project the Web presentations should provide a fast overview about a project detailed information about special aspects of the problem and its solution

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Structure of Websites advantages of the standardization: a easy navigation for the human user (uniform navigation within the Web presentation of a project) allows to process the information by machines ( better retrieval functionalities in the information space, defined by the Web presentations of the projects in the BMBF programs in mathematics)

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Structuring the project information (top level) * topic specific and mathematical modeling

Overview about the Project(Projektbersicht)The Problem (Das Problem)Results and Products(Anwendungen und Produkte)Models* (Modelle)Participants(Beteiligte)Mathematical Aspects (Mathematische Behandlung)

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Groups and subgroups of the Math&Industry Page

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Groups and subgroups Participants (Beteiligte) Project officer / Associates (Projektverantwortliche /Mitarbeiter) Companies / Scientific institutions (Firmen / Wissenschaftliche Institutionen)

The problem (Das Problem) Problem specification (Problembeschreibung) Glossary (Glossar) Related questions (Verwandte Fragestellungen)

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The groups and subgroups Models (Modelle) Modeling (Modellierung) Glossary (Glossar) Similar models (hnliche Modelle) Mathematical Aspects (Mathematische Behandlung) Mathematical Models (Mathematische Modelle) Mathematical methods and procedures (Mathematische Methoden und Verfahren) Publications (Publikationen) Software /Simulations (Software / Simulationen) Glossary (Glossar) Related mathematical problems (hnliche mathematische Probleme)

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Currently, the proposal is under discussion (until end of March)problems names of the groups and subgroups redundance: the contents of the groups may overlap assignment subgroups - groups

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AgendaIntroductionPresentation of applied mathematicsThe Math&Industry project: AimsAn exampleStructuring of informationThe Math&Industry-PageMetadataThe WebSiteMakerAbout the central portal

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The Math&Industry Page: a local portal to the information of a projectSome comments: The Math&Industry Page is a classification schema for the information of a project. the core of the Math&Industry Page: the links to the information in the groups and subgroups further on the Math&Industry Page: the title of the project in the future: a navigation bar, linked to the central services of Math&Industry

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Example:Umlaufplanungthe project page ber das Projekt

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Example:Umlaufplanungthe project page Anwendungsszenarien

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If the projects would reorganize its Web presentation in this way, then the information of the projects could be harvested and indexed according to this structure, then the central services could generate and manage various views over the projects, e.g., a list of all projects, a list of all projects providing software, etc. an enhanced search (a search over the whole information space and also a search in the groups/subgroups of the Math&Industry Page)

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AgendaIntroductionPresentation of applied mathematicsThe Math&Industry project: AimsAn exampleStructuring of informationThe Math&Industry-PageMetadataThe WebSiteMakerAbout the central portal

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More semantic information about the single facts of a project A more sophisticated access to the information requires more semantic annotation of the information a better semantic annotation of the contents of the groups and subgroups is neededThis means: standardization for the description of information for publications, persons, institutions, glossaries, ...

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The approach Question 1: What should be presented? structuring of information, fixing the vocabulary Question 2: How should the contents be presented?

partly the Math-Net developments can be used